Wielding Bitcoin, The Book
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Because simply HODLing is not going to cut it.
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Prepare, survive, thrive
Dear esteemed bitcoin remnants. My name is Niko Laamanen and I run the first bitcoin only publishing house Konsensus Network. Since 2019 we have been publishing other authors' books in several languages with the help of a starfish organization comprising of dozens of volunteers. Now I want to join the ranks of authors by writing a practical but entertaining guidebook on wielding bitcoin, that is, to effortlessly flex your monetary muscles to deter modern world parasites that seek to destroy the realm of men. Bitcoin is a weapon of self-defense of the highest grade.
Wielding bitcoin shifts the paradigm from dependence on state into voluntary cooperation based on specialization leading to individual profitability maximization. A cornerstone of human development since the beginning of time. State does not provide the services it once perhaps did and it is once again time to wield the power and responsibility ourselves.
About the book
The book is based on a Citadel21 article: https://www.citadel21.com/wielding-bitcoin I wrote a while back. I noticed that I had a lot more to say about the topic and after getting great feedback for the article, I decided to make it into a comprehensive guidebook for bitcoin remnants, the low time preference kings and queens that have decided to bear the burden of manifesting a new, better tomorrow backed by bitcoin standard and other weapons of sovereignty.
The book is not only about bitcoin but how to prepare yourself with necessary resources and skills and how to survive clown world to finally be able to thrive in the second realm of men backed by bitcoin and human action. As my knowledge on certain topics such as agriculture, mining and taproot are somewhat limited, I decided to partner up with a fellow bitcoin remnant Renik Van den Eynde.
We
have already started writing and have about 20 pages worth of book
ready. No idea how big the book will get as it seems we are adding new
topics to cover every week. If you want to suggest resources or topics
to cover, never hesitate to PM us on Twitter or drop an email to niko@konsensus.network. We have included the outline of the book along with some samples to give you an idea what to expect.
Inspiration
can't be forced or rushed so we don't have an exact timeline for the
release of the book but getting it out ASAP seems like a good idea as
the clown world is gearing up for its final hurrah. 2022 would be nice
but we'll see how much interest the book generates.
Share this page with your peers to help motivate us and to dedicate more time in finishing the book!
wieldingbitcoin.com
Who is this book for?
There are already many bitcoin books that outline the value proposal, cultural healing or technical aspects of bitcoin. They tend to answer questions like ”why should I be interested in this new technology?” Or ”how exactly is bitcoin going to fix this?” Or ”how can I benefit from the protocol by understanding it more in depth?” Not to mention the gargantuan amount of trading books that give you advice on how to benefit from fiat volatility (no, bitcoin is not volatile, fiat is). The book we are writing now is answering the superseding question: ”so what?” You know the realm of men is on the brink of collapse. You know the money is the main issue. You know strong men forged in bad times create better times that create weak men who then again bring about the bad times and so the cycle repeats. You definitely know bitcoin is poised to break this vicious cycle. This book will suggest how to prepare for the collapse of human empire, how to survive it and how to thrive in the aftermath while ensuring eternal flourishment of humanity. We do it by wielding bitcoin.
Who is this book NOT for?
If you are buying bitcoin to flip it into fiat for “gains”, this book is not for you. Freedom is the ultimate priority and we don’t negotiate with terrorists. We refuse to comply with centrally planned cacophony and we reject your fiat decrees and the false idols you worship. We don’t recognize fiat currency as money and we use it as we use toilet paper: when we have to.
About the Authors
Niko Laamanen, @OmniFinn
I had a fiat life as a construction engineer where I was coordinating and executing multi-million commercial renovation projects while living ”the life” as we knew pre-bitcoin. It was a great experience as I discovered many of the techniques I still use to this day when running projects, mainly the starfish model where leadership manifests in the trenches via example rather than by ivory tower decree. People who choose to follow from their own selfish will are worthy allies.
The nagging feeling that something in the world was not quite right drove me to depression, burnout and finally to quit the fiat life and start my journey as a nomad and a storyteller. After re-discovering bitcoin in 2017 (after first discovering it in 2010) my life got a new meaning. I realized there is an out from the madness of modernity that plagues the realm of men to this day. The idea that someone else would know better what is good for me always felt wrong and it took understanding bitcoin and Austrian economics to shake me out of the decades of indoctrination and of the feeling of being a ”bad seed” due to lack of compliance.
After
tumbling down the rabbit hole of sovereign information warfare, I
realized that bitcoin is the only hand to play in the game of life and
it matters little if the opponent has a better hand in the end as we
are doomed if we lose. Nothing to do but to go all-in financially,
mentally and socially. I have dedicated my remaining days to informing
those in need and most of all, those who want to unplug from the matrix.
Sovereign individuals will out-compete the state violence monopolies
eventually but before that, we have our work cut out, perhaps for
decades still. HODLing is cool, but I choose WIEDLing.
Renik Van den Eynde, @Prufrock94
I spent most of my younger life gladly living within the system, not knowing any better, defending democracy and devouring mainstream media. This changed abruptly when I discovered Bitcoin in 2017. What first started as a technical interest, soon dragged me into the socioeconomic implications of this new discovery. Slowly, by learning about the solution, I started to see the problem. In the meantime the system that I used to believe in and that I gave every chance to prove itself, kept on failing me. Today I am convinced that bitcoin is our only hope for breaking the chains that have held mankind captive and that this will not happen (fast enough) by simply hodling.
I started translating bitcoin books for Konsensus Network in 2021 and came into contact with Niko. Soon, after Niko published his original 'Wielding Bitcoin' article, the idea for this book started brewing. As an agricultural engineer I am especially interested in how our agriculture has been corrupted by fiat and centralization and what bitcoin could bring to this sector. This book is giving me the time to explore my ideas and put them to paper. I’d like to thank Niko and you, the reader, for this unique opportunity. Now grab your weapon, stand beside me on this hill and wield bitcoin.
About the fundraiser
The reason for this fundraiser is to gauge interest and gather funds so we can prioritize writing the book if there is enough demand and get it out faster. If there is no interest, that's valuable information too and allows us to focus on other things.
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Table of contents
(to be heavily changed)
Dedication 3
Introduction 3
Who is this book for? 3
Who is this book NOT for? 4
Why wield bitcoin? 4
Bitcoin as/is a natural force 5
Bitcoin is a discovery 5
Relative scarcity vs absolute scarcity 5
Timechain, not blockchain 6
Pure property rights 6
Fiat culture is the enemy of freedom 6
Illimitability 6
The end of fiat empire 6
Democracy, the dog that failed 7
How bitcoin will destroy/dismantle/neuter centralized powers 7
Censorship resistance 8
Why centralized powers cannot destroy bitcoin 8
Game theory 8
Bitcoin is anti-war 8
Making saving sexy again 8
Time preference 9
Part 1: Prepare 10
Gather knowledge 10
Stack sats 10
Keep your head down 11
Operations security (Op-sec) 11
Avoid the KYC way 11
Red herring strategy (Detach from the meat space) 12
Chain of lies 12
Forge alliances 12
Circle of trust 13
Choosing a wife 13
Choosing a husband 13
Choosing a business partner 13
Watch out for Agent Smith 13
Support those you’ll need in the aftermath 14
Part 2: Survive 15
Have a plan 15
Two is one, one is none 15
Craft weapons 15
Nomad life 15
Bitcoin weapons 15
3D printed guns 15
Be hard to kill 16
Build muscle 16
Part 3: Thrive 16
Grow food 16
Raise children 17
Build infrastructure 17
Starfish enterprise model 18
Mining energy money 18
Distributing meat space goods 18
Wield equality/leverage level playing fields 18
Sovereign market capitalism 18
Government = open source software 18
Conclusion 18
Back-matter 19
About the authors 19
Acknowledgements 20
List of Figures 20
List of Tables 20
Bibliography 20
Index 20
Dedication
For all freedom maximalists that choose to wield bitcoin for the betterment of humanity. It is a pleasure and a privilege to stand beside you on this hill. In all our lives we have not found such honesty, integrity, morality and love.
Democracy, the dog that failed
”Bad dog!” Says the freedom maximalist waking up from the nightmarish fallacy of ”democracy is not even worst” persuasion. After all, dogs are bred to be servants of men and isn’t that the false promise democracy proponents peddle in fiat indoctrination camps we are accustomed to call public schools? Even a tyrant rests every once in a while but a democratically elected official believing from the bottom of their heart that they are doing good for people will never stop meddling with our lives, causing more damage than the problem they are trying to fix2. Democracy is a beautiful idea, just like communism but it falls short all the same as no-one can govern reality like natural balance, certainly not the general population. In simple terms:
"Because democracy basically means: government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded. So let us say: government by the retarded, of the retarded, for the retarded." – Osho
Making saving sexy again
Mainstream pop-economists (Keynesians) see inflation as an important feature to increase money velocity. Without reckless spending the economy would grind to a halt, and should the purchasing power of money increase (as with bitcoin) instead of decreasing (as with fiat currency), people would just save their money and the businesses would go bankrupt. Or so goes the story. There is no denying the consumption would decrease. Then again it is also a popular opinion that we are living in a world dominated by opulent consumerism with multitude of issues ranging from global warming to waste management that might just be easier to solve with lower consumption. People would still not entirely stop spending if reckless money creation would end; the spending would just gravitate from malinvestments towards more sustainable investments that are anticipated to yield greater benefits over time than simply saving the money for later.
In other words, bitcoin makes saving sexy again.
Gather knowledge
Books, specifically printed paper, books are a great store of informational value. They have a high Lindy effect, meaning they will likely be around much longer than many humans.
E-books are great too, but in a shit-hits-the-fan -event, paper books are invaluable. Don’t shy away from spending sats to hold books, as they will be an investment worthy of holding and passing on to your heirs. Consider that you are also supporting the authors, helping them contribute even more great ideas to the eternal information pool that grows stronger when tapped into.
Moon is built on actions prompted by good ideas.
Chain of lies
Speaking in half truths is a great red herring strategy because humans naturally display tells or ticks to signal when they are lying because the lie takes more effort and expends more energy having to be tracked for and remembered so not to drive oneself to a corner later when talking about something seemingly irrelevant and revealing the chain of lies. Keeping up with the work expended to propagate and broadcast the chain of lies stacks up and eventually there will be a slip that exposes the truth one is trying to obfuscate.
Plant a red herring deliberately, avoid lying in general. For example you could post to social media a picture from a place you have been before, perhaps several years ago but plant it so that it gives the impression you are there currently. For this it is best to use a picture you have never before published anywhere as otherwise it will be very easy to decipher. And remember that the best lie is one you are capable of believing yourself.
Circle of trust
Accountability is the constant across the gradient of a sovereign individual's partners. Bitcoin is the first monolith of absolute history; it cannot lie. Not so with humans that will lie in order to survive and to reach their goals. Honesty and accountability thus become key properties in human partners as they are unverifiable unlike bitcoin: we must trust.
In this chapter we explore different partnerships any bitcoin remnant ought to find useful if not necessary in their quest to wielding bitcoin to manifest favorable outcomes. After all dying alone and heir-less is a sign of a very high time preference: so your goal was to live fast and die young with no legacy? Nah, we need to do better than that. We have a sacred duty to keep the unbroken chain of humanity alive and well.
We talk about wives and husbands but this is not to say marriage as institution is necessary. In fact it's kind of weird to seek the approval or sanction of a trusted 3rd party to verify your partnership with someone:
"Honey, I love you!"
"I love you too, babe!"
"Let's involve the state!"
Doesn't add up.
Watch out for Agent Smith
Most of the people who built their lives on the sandy beaches awash with lies of establishment and illusion of complete knowledge, where there can be none, will go Agent Smith on you and protect the system rather than you as they desperately cling to the welfare state, misplaced faith in police state protection or Stockholm syndrome resulting from not being able to face the ugly truth that they are slaves. The conclusion is clear: they can’t be trusted and you are better off without that dead weight in your freedom train.
Craft weapons
Bitcoin is a weapon of self defense of the highest grade. It allows you to protect your personal property rights and to procure efficient means to enforce them. Your HODL stack might help disarm the state violence monopolies, but it doesn’t prevent someone performing a 5$ wrench attack on you or your family. Yes, you might have a distress wallet, but at this point any competent attacker will know about it.
The best defense against a meatspace offender is often to remove yourself and your loved ones from the vicinity of the attacker as fast as possible, so at least until the current oppressive regimes are neutered, it would be unwise to set up a base that can be overrun. At least have a grab bag and a plan.
We can wield weapons to initiate aggression or to deter it. Bitcoin is the ultimate weapon of self defense. To protect our purchasing power is monetary disarmament and its best described by Thiers’ law, where good money drives out bad. This is why hodling can prevent wars by wresting the leverage from the hands of warmongers. Preventing wars is a great start but our humanity demands we live, that is, to act in order to alleviate uneasiness, to enjoy life, to do whatever the hell we want to do.
Grow food
Or pay someone to do it for you. The power of division of labor allows us to focus on our expertise and what we enjoy most. Most people will never be cattle farmers, nor is there a need for that. One competent cattle farmer could service the whole citadel, and provide quality meat packaged and delivered to your door. No centralized, inefficient supply chains required. Even cow farts can be turned into sats! Imagine the misty-eyed eco-hippies who think bitcoin and cow farts are our worst enemies.
Agriculture is the basis of human life on earth, it provides us with the two solemn things we need in order to survive and thrive: energy and nutrition. Without these two we would not have the building blocks that make up our body and we would not have the energy to keep it from yielding against the natural force that would inevitably drive it towards entropy. As such, securing food and water will be the first concern in a collapsing economic world, where the current centralized supply chains will break down. Whenever a new civilization is founded in virgin territory, finding and growing food is always a priority. In this chapter we will first discuss how the centralized agriculture we have today came into existence and what the foundation of this system are. Because of the dominance of this system there is no resilience of the food supply against any extreme event.
Raise children
Sex is a high time preference activity, procreation is low.
Investing in children is probably the best use for your sats, as it’s highly unlikely you will ever have the impact on human civilization that your offspring will. It’s also crucial to ensure future citadels are populated with well trained, morally sound citizens of the global village society. Funnily enough, the moon we build is actually earth.
Since we’re talking about renaissance of human civilization, it stands to reason that we home-school our young instead of putting them in statist quo brainwashing institutes. Following the herd might feel tempting, especially if most of your time is consumed in a fiat job, but don’t fall for it. Quit your fiat job, take full responsibility. Perhaps one day under the bitcoin standard we’ll have real private schools, providing better education using the latest tools, but for now, the internet and time will have to do.
If we can teach our children to read and to research, to pragmatically think of a problem and intuitively come up with queries to find the relevant resources to teach themselves how to solve any problem, they will become completely unstoppable. We are not here to teach them what to think but how to think.
Sovereign market capitalism
Every service, defense and roads included, are best provided by private enterprise. They have all the incentives to provide good service as customer is king. People who wield unconfiscatable money make their vote count.
Historically, there has always been a state. And perhaps that continues to be true, depending on what you’d call a state. But for the very least they will be vastly downsized due to stopping of money printing in bitcoin standard. The return of the city state.
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Wielding Bitcoin Telegram group is open!
We
have just opened a telegram group for our patrons. Join us there to
discuss ideas and review content for the book. You will get an
invitation link to your email if you preorder the book. This is your
chance to be a part of the process! Active contributors of the group
will be mentioned in the book as well. NOTE: if you were one of the first ones to order and didn't give us your email, please email niko@konsensus.network to get invited to the group!
Prepare, survive, thrive
Dear esteemed bitcoin remnants. My name is Niko Laamanen and I run the first bitcoin only publishing house Konsensus Network. Since 2019 we have been publishing other authors' books in several languages with the help of a starfish organization comprising of dozens of volunteers. Now I want to join the ranks of authors by writing a practical but entertaining guidebook on wielding bitcoin, that is, to effortlessly flex your monetary muscles to deter modern world parasites that seek to destroy the realm of men. Bitcoin is a weapon of self-defense of the highest grade.
Wielding bitcoin shifts the paradigm from dependence on state into voluntary cooperation based on specialization leading to individual profitability maximization. A cornerstone of human development since the beginning of time. State does not provide the services it once perhaps did and it is once again time to wield the power and responsibility ourselves.
About the book
The book is based on a Citadel21 article: https://www.citadel21.com/wielding-bitcoin I wrote a while back. I noticed that I had a lot more to say about the topic and after getting great feedback for the article, I decided to make it into a comprehensive guidebook for bitcoin remnants, the low time preference kings and queens that have decided to bear the burden of manifesting a new, better tomorrow backed by bitcoin standard and other weapons of sovereignty.
The book is not only about bitcoin but how to prepare yourself with necessary resources and skills and how to survive clown world to finally be able to thrive in the second realm of men backed by bitcoin and human action. As my knowledge on certain topics such as agriculture, mining and taproot are somewhat limited, I decided to partner up with a fellow bitcoin remnant Renik Van den Eynde.
We
have already started writing and have about 20 pages worth of book
ready. No idea how big the book will get as it seems we are adding new
topics to cover every week. If you want to suggest resources or topics
to cover, never hesitate to PM us on Twitter or drop an email to niko@konsensus.network. We have included the outline of the book along with some samples to give you an idea what to expect.
Inspiration
can't be forced or rushed so we don't have an exact timeline for the
release of the book but getting it out ASAP seems like a good idea as
the clown world is gearing up for its final hurrah. 2022 would be nice
but we'll see how much interest the book generates.
Share this page with your peers to help motivate us and to dedicate more time in finishing the book!
wieldingbitcoin.com
Who is this book for?
There are already many bitcoin books that outline the value proposal, cultural healing or technical aspects of bitcoin. They tend to answer questions like ”why should I be interested in this new technology?” Or ”how exactly is bitcoin going to fix this?” Or ”how can I benefit from the protocol by understanding it more in depth?” Not to mention the gargantuan amount of trading books that give you advice on how to benefit from fiat volatility (no, bitcoin is not volatile, fiat is). The book we are writing now is answering the superseding question: ”so what?” You know the realm of men is on the brink of collapse. You know the money is the main issue. You know strong men forged in bad times create better times that create weak men who then again bring about the bad times and so the cycle repeats. You definitely know bitcoin is poised to break this vicious cycle. This book will suggest how to prepare for the collapse of human empire, how to survive it and how to thrive in the aftermath while ensuring eternal flourishment of humanity. We do it by wielding bitcoin.
Who is this book NOT for?
If you are buying bitcoin to flip it into fiat for “gains”, this book is not for you. Freedom is the ultimate priority and we don’t negotiate with terrorists. We refuse to comply with centrally planned cacophony and we reject your fiat decrees and the false idols you worship. We don’t recognize fiat currency as money and we use it as we use toilet paper: when we have to.
About the Authors
Niko Laamanen, @OmniFinn
I had a fiat life as a construction engineer where I was coordinating and executing multi-million commercial renovation projects while living ”the life” as we knew pre-bitcoin. It was a great experience as I discovered many of the techniques I still use to this day when running projects, mainly the starfish model where leadership manifests in the trenches via example rather than by ivory tower decree. People who choose to follow from their own selfish will are worthy allies.
The nagging feeling that something in the world was not quite right drove me to depression, burnout and finally to quit the fiat life and start my journey as a nomad and a storyteller. After re-discovering bitcoin in 2017 (after first discovering it in 2010) my life got a new meaning. I realized there is an out from the madness of modernity that plagues the realm of men to this day. The idea that someone else would know better what is good for me always felt wrong and it took understanding bitcoin and Austrian economics to shake me out of the decades of indoctrination and of the feeling of being a ”bad seed” due to lack of compliance.
After
tumbling down the rabbit hole of sovereign information warfare, I
realized that bitcoin is the only hand to play in the game of life and
it matters little if the opponent has a better hand in the end as we
are doomed if we lose. Nothing to do but to go all-in financially,
mentally and socially. I have dedicated my remaining days to informing
those in need and most of all, those who want to unplug from the matrix.
Sovereign individuals will out-compete the state violence monopolies
eventually but before that, we have our work cut out, perhaps for
decades still. HODLing is cool, but I choose WIEDLing.